Word: councill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real role of the Student Council is to act as a 'mouthpiece' for the Harvard student body, stated Dean Bender. He added that several voices represent the views of small groups, but only the Council speaks for the entire collection of undergraduates...
...Council, "most important of College organizations," generally follows two courses of action, according to Dean Bender. "It calls attention to grievances and needs of the students, such as parking shortages and unsatisfactory football ticket sales, and it studies the University's major system and policies with the long range interests of the students as its guide...
...major difficulties of the Council, according to the Dean, are "its tendency to bite off more projects than it can chew and improper picking of personel to execute its plans...
...report by Treasurer Roy M. Goodman '51 that the Council is on "thin ice" financially, with suggestion that money activities of the many Council committees be centralized through one business manager, as an economy move...
Last year's Student Council spent more money than any other in the College's history. It sliced deep into its reserve fund and left this year's Council dangerously close to being insolvent. When the present group meets all its inherited obligations, it will have only about a thousand dollars; this is one quarter the amount that last year's body was left by its predecessors...